Posted on 05/31/2018 2:38:55 PM PDT by Ennis85
Half of Americans in Gallup's 2018 Values and Beliefs poll say that being gay or lesbian is a trait from birth, easily eclipsing the 30% who believe it is a product of upbringing and environment. This is consistent with findings over the past few years. Another 10% say both explanations play a role, while 4% attribute being gay to something else and 6% are unsure.
When Gallup first asked this "nature vs. nurture" question in 1977, a majority of U.S. adults (56%) said being gay or lesbian was due to people's upbringing and environment, and only 13% saw it as a birth trait. Attitudes didn't shift markedly until after 1989. Between 1989 and Gallup's next update in 1996, the percentage believing sexual orientation is determined at birth jumped from 19% to 31%, and reached 40% by 2001. Opinion remained steady for the next 12 years, as Americans were roughly split between the two positions. Since 2012, the percentage assigning sexual orientation to nature rather than nurture has inched up another 10 percentage points.
This year's Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 1-10, also shows 67% of Americans in favor of same-sex marriages being legal -- a new high for that viewpoint. Separately, Gallup recently reported that the percentage of Americans identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender has increased a full point since 2012 and is now 4.5%.
The perception that a person is born gay rather than it being the result of upbringing or other factors has increased among all demographic and political groups. But, according to a comparison of aggregated data from 2001 to 2003 vs. 2015 to 2018, the change in beliefs has been most pronounced among politically left-leaning groups, including young adults (aged 18 to 34), college graduates, Democrats, liberals and those who seldom or never
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Yes, you did, responding to my post where I said: "If you disagree, by all means, provide a scientific study." But you can't, which is my point. You are of course free to think what you want based on your observation and experience and I will try to communicate to you and others, that your observation and experience do not align with science or any data on the topic.
Years ago, the argument against your comment above was there could be a recessive gene, but that is no longer used as science has made it clear, there is no known genetic marker of any kind supporting gays are born that way.
What we have are reporters misrepresenting studies and people speaking nonsense from their lack of knowledge on the subject.
This Is The Way God Made Me A Scientific Examination of Homosexuality and the Gay Gene
The conclusion: there is no genetic cause for same-sex attraction.
Earlier this morning I was reading about another study in the UK from December 2017 where they were shouting from the rooftops, we found the gay gene we found the gay gene. But in reality, they didn't and even admitted it was all speculative. But somebody had to sell some advertising space so they push what itching ears want to hear.
I disagree that my experience does not align with scientific data.
I am not aware of any significant studies that relate body chemistry and genetics with homosexuality, and the ones I have seen want to distort reality to make it acceptable- I.E. the ‘study’ seems biased.
I am a scientist myself, and so I am good at making observations. Based on what I observed, I think I could easily formulate a study to determine if what I observed matched my theory- and it is ONLY my theory- but as far as I know no study of that kind has been made. It seems to me the single most obvious study... and yet...
If you are aware of one, let me know.
To what scientific data do you refer?
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Differing levels of sin?
Not in the Bibles I’ve read. Sin is sin.
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You seem to only read the first sentence, then respond... read ALL of it
I've listed a few articles and one article referencing three well known studies, none of which support the born-that-way theory. I've also posted a link to my categorical index of links with a plethora of data and references to a myriad of studies.
No scientific study to date supports the born-that-way theory. No personal observations support the born-that-way theory. No study that claims to support the born-that-way theory has been replicated. That's the real issue.
Apparently, their free will says “bone dudes”.
PS: it’s obviously molestation while young that creates homos.
They deserve our sympathy.
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